June 16, 2016

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Alabama Child Protective Services Steals New-born Breast-feeding Baby from Rape Victim While Still at the Hospital

Family embraces newborn – loved no matter how he was conceived. Photo credit: Juda Myers.

UPDATE 8/19/2016

Alabama 14 Year Old Rape Victim Released from State Custody with her Baby

UPDATE 8/10/2016

Alabama Child Protective Services Continues to Harass Alabama Family

UPDATE 7/26/2016

Alabama DHR Continues to Destroy Family of 14 Year Old Rape Victim

UPDATE 7/11/2016

From the SAVE Braelon’s Family Facebook page:

BREAKING NEWS: DHR has been halted from performing the circumcision by the attorney’s petition and order of the court!!! Thank you to everyone!!!

Health Impact News received word that the hospital also apparently refused to do the procedure because of all the publicity.

UPDATE 7/10/2016

Newborn Kidnapped Baby of 14 Year Old Alabama Mother to be Force Circumcised Against Wishes of Family

UPDATE 7/6/2016

Is 14 Year Old Mother Being Held Prisoner and Denied Legal Counsel After DHR Kidnapped her Baby?

UPDATE 7/2/2016

Newborn Alabama Baby is Now Sick in the Hospital While Under DHR Care After Being Taken from 14-year Old Mother

From the SAVE Braelon’s Family Facebook page:

BREAKING NEWS: baby Braelon has a high fever and was throwing up and his mother had to BEG the workers at her group home to take the baby to the local hospital first and then he was transferred around midnight last night to Children’s Hospital because of the severity. After a spinal tap was done white blood cells are high and Spinal Meningitis is suspected.

The negligence on the part of a group that is supposed to protect children is outrageous! Even though the baby had a dr’s appt the day after he was discharged from the hospital it wasn’t til TEN DAYS LATER that they took the baby to be checked!!

Please pray for Braelon and his mom. DHR is NOT allowing advocates, any recording devices video or pictures. They do NOT want this to be shared with the world. PLEASE SHARE!!!

Read more.

UPDATE 6/29/2016

Alabama Judge Threatens Health Impact News Reporter

UPDATE 6/26/2016

Pattern of Child Kidnappings by Alabama DHR Exposed: Another New-born Infant Seized at Hospital

UPDATE-2 6/24/2016

Health Impact News Named in Alabama Lawsuit for Exposing State-sponsored Child Kidnapping

UPDATE 6/24/2016

Alabama Court Seeks To Suppress 1st Amendment Rights

Judge Corey Moore is reportedly hearing the DHR juvenile court case of the newborn baby seized from the 14 year old rape victim mother today in Alabama. The court has reportedly ordered that no cell phones are allowed in the proceedings of this case today. Reports also say that the court has ordered the grandparents to remove all information about this case from the Internet or face jail.

Health Impact News has received threats like this in the past from Family Court judges, and of course will NOT comply but stand on our 1st Amendment rights. This story has been read by over 1 million people across the U.S., and it will not be taken down.

We will provide updates of today’s court hearing as details become available.

UPDATE 6/18/2016

Accused Man Arrested in Alabama Rape Mother Story – Allowed to Enter Hospital Room to See Baby Before His Arrest

UPDATE 6/16/2016

Since this story was published, it has now gone viral on social media, and is expected to be read by more than 1 million people in the next day or so.

Many people have asked questions that we want to address in this update. First, a common comment is “there must be more to the story.” Yes, in all of these medical kidnapping stories, there is always “more.” But what we strive to do at Health Impact News is stick to the facts. The facts in this particular story are based on eye-witness accounts who were present at the hospital on the day this event occurred. DHR, as well as all “Child Protective Services” around the country, refuses to comment on these cases. So anything other than what we have reported here is speculation.

Many have asked why the local media will not report on this story. That is a great question. The answer is pure speculation. Are there financial connections, for example, between the media and the hospital in this story, or other local connections applying pressure to not report on this story? We don’t know. Local media is reportedly telling readers that there is “more to the story” and that it is not worth reporting. Really?? If you work for one of the local mainstream media outlets in the Birmingham Alabama area, and want to “blow the whistle” on why this story is being censored, please contact us. We will keep your identity confidential, if that is requested.

Here are the facts we know. The accused rapist is NOT a family member, as some are suggesting. A DHR social worker told the family that they are investigating several other reports of the 19 year old alleged rapist raping other underage girls.

The grandparents have been approved by DHR to care for their grandchildren, and if their home was unsafe, why have the other grandchildren been allowed to remain in the home until now?

The 14 year old mother and her twin brother have now been seized by DHR. A tearful Dee Prince called at about 6 pm on Thurday to report that DHR and the police were on their way to take the twins. She had no idea why. When they arrived, the family asked for a court order or warrant. There was none. It was reportedly a “DHR order.” Could this be retaliation for the story going viral and putting pressure on DHR?

The young post-partum mother was permitted to pack a few things, but her twin brother was not permitted to pack anything at all. They were both quite upset and didn’t want to leave their family.

A police officer present at the scene reportedly told the boy that, if he didn’t get in the car, he would taze him. The boy was not even privy to the reason he was being taken, much less was he a criminal, yet this Alabaster police officer was willing to risk the child’s life in order to place him in “child protective” custody. (See link to taser dangers here.) He left in just his shorts and a T-shirt.

Though the DHR social worker promised that the twins would not be separated, they were taken away in different vehicles.

Mrs. Prince asked for the social worker’s name, but she refused to give her full name. She told her:

You’ll find out all you need to know in court tomorrow.

An observer on the scene was able to locate the worker on Facebook and identify her as Adrianna Carter.

Just as before, the social worker had insisted that she speak to the minors alone, without their guardians present.

Later in the evening, the family got news of the single bright spot in their whole nightmare of the past 2 days – the young mother was reunited with her baby, and was able to breastfeed him. However, she will not be able to attend either of her own hearings tomorrow – neither the one for her newborn son at 1 pm, nor the one for her and her twin brother at 9 am. The twins were, indeed, separated.

A Facebook page has been set up to support the family, called SAVE Braelon’s Family.

Alabama Child Protective Services Steals New-born Breast-feeding Baby from Rape Victim While Still at the Hospital

by Terri LaPoint
Health Impact News

Juda Myers of Choices4Life calls her a “Hero Mom.” A 14 year old Alabama girl became pregnant from a rape, but she courageously chose life for the baby that was conceived. She refused to consider the option of abortion, and told her grandparents, who are her legal guardians, that if they would help her, she would raise and love this baby.

Instead of celebrating her as a hero, Alabama child protective services – DHR – came into the hospital yesterday and seized her newborn baby, leaving a devastated young mother and her family in their wake.

Juda Myers and I were there to witness the trampling of every Constitutional and moral right of this young mother, and we are shocked and devastated at what we saw. There is no legal or moral justification for what we saw happen at Shelby Baptist Medical Center in Alabaster, Alabama, on Wednesday, June 15, 2016.

Choices4Life founder Juda Myers flew to Alabama from Texas on Monday in order to be supportive of this young mother who chose life for her baby conceived in rape. The tagline for the ministry is “Restoring honor and dignity to women and children of rape conception.” Juda says:

This 14 year old’s dignity was stolen. Cases like hers are exactly why Choices4Life exists.

DHR supervisor Ahzshaka Evans with Officer Edmunson. Photo by Health Impact News.

There was no court order, no warrant, and no sign of imminent (or any other) danger, yet hospital social worker Jamilia literally ripped 51 hour-old Braelon from his mother’s arms right after he finished breastfeeding, under the direction of DHR supervisor Ahzshaka Evans, with the approval of 3 Alabaster police officers, led by shift supervisor Officer Edmunson, Detective Raugh, 2 security personnel, and hospital Director of Risk Management/Compliance Ashley Cole-Tyson.

By all accounts of the nursing and medical staff, the young mother was doing an amazing job of mothering her baby son Braelon. She loves and adores her baby. Even though he was conceived in rape, it is clear that this is HER baby.

Mother and baby – obviously in love. Photo credit: Juda Myers

He was born on Monday with a labor doula and his grandmother by his mother’s side. There were candles and soft music. She gave birth naturally, with no epidural or drugs that could possibly cause harm to the baby. She rejected circumcision when she learned that there were risks for her newborn for the cosmetic procedure. She chose to breastfeed, and by his second day of life, she was already very comfortable with her role as a breastfeeding mom. Everyone, staff and visitor alike, remarked at what a pro she already was. Her milk was already coming in by Wednesday afternoon.

Just Following “Protocol”

We were told by Jamilia, the hospital social worker, that DHR was notified after the baby’s birth. When grandmother Dee Prince asked why they were called, she was told that this was “protocol.” Months ago, when the mother reported the rape to the police, the police notified DHR, citing policy, because the rape victim was a minor. Jamilia assured us that this was different than the part of DHR that takes children away from parents, and that this was just a procedural thing that they had to be notified of the birth, and that after the DHR social worker stopped by to visit, the family could go home.

The mother had a place all set up at the home she lives in with her custodial grandparents, complete with bassinet and all the necessary things for her baby. But her baby hasn’t seen any of it. The family wonders if he ever will.

All day on Wednesday, we were told by nurses, the nurse-practitioner, and the hospital social worker that mom and baby could go home as soon as the visit from the social worker happened. They thought they would go home by lunchtime. Juda got her flight booked to return to her home in Texas for that evening. We all thought we were just waiting for the formality, because that is what we were repeatedly told.

Mom and baby were completely healthy, with no medical issues. The nurse-practitioner said that the baby’s bilirubin level was 8, which is not concerning, but should be rechecked in a day or two in case it increased any more. Grandmother Dee made an appointment with the pediatrician for the follow-up visit. All was well.

Why Can’t They Go Home?

By late afternoon, the family was becoming concerned, and they became worried that maybe they weren’t going to let them go home after all. The young mother’s grandfather, a retired police officer with 35 years of experience, asked the staff if they could go on and go home.

The more concerned the family became, the more testy the staff became. The family was told that they could NOT leave the hospital without being released, which would not happen until DHR got there and gave permission for them to be released.

Mother worried about the fate of her baby. Photo credit: Juda Myers.

Hospital Holds Family Hostage

Many have asked why they, or other families in similar situations, don’t just walk out and go home.

They cannot.

Because of the widely-publicized cases of criminals coming into hospitals and kidnapping babies, every baby in virtually every hospital in America gets an ankle band alarm placed on them immediately after birth. The protocol that was put in place to protect families from illegal kidnappers is the very protocol which facilitates the legal kidnapping of babies from hospitals.

In effect, every birthing mother and their newborn become hostages in every hospital because of this protocol.

Webster defines “hostage” as:

a person held by one party in a conflict as a pledge pending the fulfillment of an agreement; a person taken by force to secure the taker’s demands; or one that is involuntarily controlled by an outside influence

So the family waited. When Shannon, the DHR social worker finally came, she was very friendly and checked the baby and spoke with all of us. She said that they had no intention of taking the baby from his mother, but she needed to talk with the mother alone.

The mother didn’t want to and asked for one of her grandparents to accompany her. She is only 14, and as a minor, she has the right to have a parent or guardian present when being questioned, but Shannon said that she could not have them present.

She told her that if she refused, she would just get a court order.

This was quite puzzling, and the Princes asked why. No reason was given.

Finally, the mother relented and said, “Fine.” She would go with Shannon alone if that meant she could finally go home.

The family tried, unsuccessfully, all day to reach their attorney.

When the mother came back to the room, she reported that Shannon just asked her simple questions about how the birth went and such – no big deal.

We all expected to be able to leave at that point. The family got most of their belongings loaded up into the car. But the hospital staff said that the DHR supervisor, Ahzshaka Evans, was on the way.

“We’re Taking the Baby”

That was when it got ugly. Despite numerous attempts by the family to learn what DHR’s concerns were, all they were told was “policy” and “protocol” and that things needed to be “assessed.” We asked for a copy of the protocols to which they referred, but none was given or cited.

No reason was ever given for what happened after that. The family was accused of being non-compliant, simply because they wanted answers – answers which remained elusive. They were compliant with everything that was asked. When the Princes simply wanted to know why they couldn’t go home, Evans called law enforcement.

Tammi Stefano of the National Safe Child organization became involved by speaker phone, but Evans refused to speak with her. She later cited to law enforcement what Alabama laws they were breaking, and there were plenty. Stefano, who remained on the phone for a couple of hours trying to talk with the social workers and police officers, stated:

The social worker and the supervising social worker have refused to provide the reason for their visit to this family. The family has asked multiple times the bases for their visit what allegations were on a referral and yet the social workers are considering this question to be uncooperative on the part of the grandparents. Actually, this question prompted the social workers to take a stand to threaten the grandparents that if they did not answer all questions that a court order would be procured and the child would be removed.

I find this incredulous because the social workers had already made a determination on several occasions with this particular family that they were in fact safe, that their home was safe, their living environment was safe, and have approved these grandparents to care for these children. Furthermore, the court has found these parents are grandparents to be safe caretakers. In fact, grandfather is a retired police officer. If the social workers feel there is danger that rises to be considered imminent danger to justify the seizure of this infant, a court order is necessary. They have no authority or training to legally seize this child without a court order.

I would ask that the police, although they were called by DHS, actually assist the family, the grandparents and the mother of this child, in being able to leave this hospital peacefully. Any other action by the police department would be in violation of the constitutional rights of these people’s rights that law enforcement themselves under the Constitution are trained to follow.

A nurse came into the mother’s room and said that she had to take the baby to the nursery “to check vital signs” and to remove the alarm band. The mother told her that she could do that in the room. We witnessed the nurse throw up her hands and walk out.

Alabaster Police Officer Edmunson in the hospital room with other police. Photo by Health Impact News.

Alabaster Police Officer Edmunson later told us that he had told the nurse to do that “so that we could avoid this” – this being the emotional confrontation that happened shortly after when he and 2 other police officers, DHR supervisor Evans, 2 security guards, and several hospital staff, including hospital Risk Management director Ashley Cole-Tyson, all came into the hospital room stating that they were taking the baby.

We were floored.

WHY???

There was no reason given while we were in the room. There was no history of drug or alcohol abuse by the mother whose only “crime” was that she was a rape victim. The mother’s plans were to go home with her custodial grandparents, who had approval from the state to take care of her and her siblings.

Ironically, the alleged rapist is still free. He has been identified. DNA has been taken from him, and was taken from the baby on Tuesday. Juda Myers comments:

I see this over and over, where the victim is treated worse than the criminal for loving her rape-conceived baby, because society believes that these children are a reminder of the rape. But one mother said, ‘A man stole my body, and society is trying to steal my baby.’

In this family’s case, the family believes it is opportunistic tyrants who are untouchable behind DHR doors who are trying to steal their baby. They believe the police and the hospitals are playing unquestioningly into this human rights violations.

Devastated young mother turns to her beloved grandfather for comfort. Photo: Health Impact News

When Rodney Prince asked for a court order or warrant, Officer Edmunson told him:

DHR does not need a court order or a warrant to take a child.

However, the 4th Amendment of the United States Constitution states clearly:

The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

Does DHR of Shelby County somehow trump the Bill of Rights?

There was clearly no evidence of abuse or neglect, which is required by Alabama state law for seizure of a child. For a law enforcement officer to seize a child from their parents without a warrant, a child must be in “imminent danger,” meaning the child’s life is in danger and there is no time to get a warrant from a judge and conduct a proper investigation. The child was just born, and was in the hospital where he could not leave, so how could that condition possibly be met for a warrant-less seizure?

Dee Prince weeps as the family faces losing Braelon. Photo: Health Impact News

As “non-family members,” Juda Myers and I were escorted off of the hospital property at about 8:15 pm by 5 security guards. I had identified myself to them as a member of the Press, and I was there as a friend of the family and at their invitation, as was Juda Myers.

We waited at a nearby restaurant. The family joined us about 20 or so minutes later, without baby Braelon. The tearful mother told us that the hospital social worker tore her baby from her arms shortly after we left.

We asked to see the removal documents. They didn’t have any. DHR told them that there were “safety concerns.”

DHR didn’t offer to place the baby with any other relative or family friend, as is required by federal law. The family has no idea where their newest family member is or who he is with. They told the breastfeeding mother that there will be a Shelter Hearing on Friday at 1pm. The mother is pumping her milk and will not be permitted to visit or breastfeed her baby before then.

How You Can Help

People are invited to rally outside the Shelby County Courthouse at 112 N Main St, Columbiana, AL, on Friday, June 17. The Shelter Hearing is scheduled for 1pm, and supporters are planning to be there by 12:30.

Call Alabama Governor Robert Bentley’s office at 334-242-7100. He may also be contacted here. He is also on Facebook.

Senator Cam Ward is the Senator for their district. He may be reached at 334-242-7873, or contacted here.

Representative April Weaver represents their district. She may be reached at 334-242-7731, or contacted here.

According to the Alabama Family Rights Association, ALFRA:

Alabama has a nine-member task force created to examine the work of the Alabama Department of Human Resources (DHR). If you have issues or concerns about DHR services, your best plan of action is to contact the following legislators/lawmakers and committee members:

Mac McCutcheon, State Representative, Task Force chair / 334-242-7705 / 256-655-3764 / email here

Chris England, State Representative / 334-242-7703 / 205-535-4859 / email here

Greg Reed, State Senator / 334-242-7894 / email

The complete list of committee Members can be found here: Executive Order Number 11

Shelby County DHS Director Kim Mashego http://dhr.alabama.gov/counties/county_results.aspx?id=Shelby

Published on June 16, 2016

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138 Comments

Donna Irene Muniz Cancassi June 17, 2016 at 6:56 pm - Reply

Admin said:

Juda Myers of Choices4Life calls her a "Hero Mom." A 14 year old Alabama girl became pregnant from a rape, but she courageously chose life for the baby that was conceived. She refused to consider the option of abortion, and told her grandparents, who are her legal guardians, that if they would help her, she would raise and love this baby. Instead of celebrating her as a hero, Alabama child protective services – DHR – came into the hospital yesterday and seized her newborn baby, leaving a devastated young mother and her family in their wake. Juda Myers and I were there to witness the trampling of every Constitutional and moral right of this young mother, and we are shocked and devastated at what we saw. There is no legal or moral justification for what we saw happen at Shelby Baptist Medical Center in Alabaster, Alabama, on Wednesday, June 15, 2016. Choices4Life founder Juda Myers flew to Alabama from Texas on Monday in order to be supportive of this young mother who chose life for her baby conceived in rape. The tagline for the ministry is "Restoring honor and dignity to women and children of rape conception." Juda says: This 14 year old’s dignity was stolen. Cases like hers are exactly why Choices4Life exists. There was no court order, no warrant, and no sign of imminent (or any other) danger, yet hospital social worker Jamilia literally ripped 51 hour-old Braelon from his mother’s arms right after he finished breastfeeding.

In my 43 years of experience with DYFS/CPS and working at Family and Children’s Services since 1979 and certified by the state’s board of nursing until 1993 I have learned it is unconstitutional. The Division of Youth and Family Services has become a protected empire. It’s built on taking children and separating families.

The financial motive for the State to legally kidnap children was put intoplace in 1974 by Walter Mondale with the “Adoption and Safe Families Act.” This was later expanded by President Bill Clinton in 1997 with The Adoption and Safe Families Act that gave states cash bonuses for every child adopted out of foster care.

States have a “base formula” regarding how much each child is worth in terms of collecting federal funding, and how they can increase that formula to get all the federal funding that is available. If they get close to the end of the year and they have not collected all the funds available for the State, there is more incentive to put more children into foster care.

The words “in the best interest of the child” have been redefined by DYFS/CPS, whose goal is to destroy the family. Children are much more likely to be abused in foster care than they are when they are left with alleged “abusive” parents. This happened to me personally and more importantly my children.

The system needs to be exposed and completely dissolved. All federal funding needs to be cut off, and the rescuing of truly abused children in homes needs to become the function of law enforcement, and not social workers. This would provide due process of law.

The incredible bureaucracy that exists in the system, and all the jobs that DYFS/CPS provides is a huge “business.” Parents and children across the state have no rights and no one with whom to turn. I have witnessed, first hand, ruthless behavior from many caseworkers, social workers, investigators, lawyers, judges, therapists, and others such as those who “pick up” the children. I have been stunned by what I have experienced, seen and heard from victims, including my own family, all over the state of New Jersey.

Our case is focusing on the New Jersey Division of Family and Children Services (DYFS). However, I believe Child Protective Services nationwide has become corrupt and that the entire system is broken beyond repair.

The Division of Family and Children’s Services, known as (DYFS) in New Jersey and other titles, has become a “protected empire” built on taking children and separating families. This is not to say that there are not those children who do need to be removed from wretched situations and need protection. This case is concerned with my children and me as a parent caught up in “legal kidnapping,” ineffective policies, and DYFS who does not remove a child or children when a child is enduring torment and abuse.

I have experienced the “Gestapo” at work and I have witnessed the deceitful conditions under which children are taken in the middle of the night, out of hospitals, off of school buses, and out of homes. In Monmouth County a private drug testing business was operating within the DYFS department that required many, many drug tests from parents and individuals for profit. In the same county children were not removed when they were enduring the worst possible abuse. Due to being exposed, several employees in a particular DYFS office were fired. However, they have now been rehired either in neighboring counties or in the same county again. I am convinced there is no responsibility and no accountability in the system.

I have come to the conclusion: 1.) Poor parents often times are targeted to lose their children because they do not have the where-with-all to hire lawyers and fight the system. Being poor does not mean you are not a good parent or that you do not love your child, or that your child should be removed and placed with strangers. 2.) All parents are capable of making mistakes and that making a mistake does not mean your children are always to be removed from the home. Even if the home is not perfect, it is home; and that’s where a child is the safest and where he or she wants to be, with family. 3.) Parenting classes, anger management classes, counseling referrals, therapy classes and on and on are demanded of parents with no compassion by the system even while they are at work and while their children are separated from them. This can take months or even years and it emotionally devastates both children and parents. Parents are victimized by “the system” that makes a profit for holding children longer and “bonuses” for not returning children. 4.) Caseworkers and social workers are oftentimes guilty of fraud. They withhold evidence. They fabricate evidence and they seek to terminate parental rights. However, when charges are made against them, the charges are ignored. 5.) The separation of families is growing as a business because local governments have grown accustomed to having taxpayer dollars to balance their ever-expanding budgets. 6.) DYFS and Juvenile Court can always hide behind a confidentiality clause in order to protect their decisions and keep the funds flowing. There should be open records and “court watches”! Look who is being paid! There are state employees, lawyers, court investigators, court personnel, and judges. There are psychologists, and psychiatrists, counselors, caseworkers, therapists, foster parents, adoptive parents, and on and on. All are looking to the children in state custody to provide job security. Parents do not realize that social workers are the glue that holds “the system” together that funds the court, the child’s attorney, and the multiple other jobs including DYFS’ attorney. 7.) The Adoption and the Safe Families Act, set in motion by President Bill Clinton, offered cash
“bonuses” to the states for every child they adopted out of foster care. In order to receive the “adoption incentive bonuses” local child protective services need more children. They must have merchandise (children) that sell and you must have plenty of them so the buyer can choose. Some counties are known to give a $4,000 bonus for each child adopted and an additional $2,000 for a “special needs” child. Employees work to keep the federal dollars flowing. 8.) There is double dipping. The funding continues as long as the child is out of the home. When a child in foster care is placed with a new family then “adoption bonus funds” are available. When a child is placed in a mental health facility and is on 16 drugs per day more funds are involved. 9.) There are no financial resources and no real drive to unite a family and help keep them together. 10.) The incentive for social workers to return children to their parents quickly after taking them has disappeared and who in protective services will step up to the plate and say, “This must end!” No one, because they are all in the system together and a system with no leader and no clear policies will always fail the children. Look at the waste in government that is forced upon the tax payer. 11.) The “Policy Manuel” is considered “the last word” for DYFS. However, it is too long, too confusing, poorly written and does not take the law into consideration. 12.) If the lives of children were improved by removing them from their homes, there might be a greater need for protective services, but today all children are not always safer. Children, of whom I am aware, have been raped and impregnated in foster care including my own. 13.) Some parents are even told if they want to see their children or grandchildren, they must divorce their spouse. Many, who are under privileged, feeling they have no option, will divorce and then just continue to live together. This is an anti-family policy, but parents will do anything to get their children home with them. 14.) Non-custodial parents are oftentimes treated as criminals without access to their own children and have child support payments strangling the very life out of them. 15.) The Foster Parents Bill of Rights does not bring out that a foster parent is there only to care for a child until the child can be returned home. Many Foster Parents today use the Foster Parent Bill of Rights to hire a lawyer and seek to adopt the child from the real parents, who are desperately trying to get their child home and out of the system. 16.) Tax dollars are being used to keep this gigantic system afloat, yet the victims, parents, grandparents, guardians and especially the children, are charged for the system’s services. 17.) The children lose their family heritage and grandparents, and parents too, lose all connections to their heirs. 18.) The National Center on Child Abuse and Neglect in 1998 reported that six times as many children died in foster care than in the general public and that once removed to official “safety”, these children are far more likely to suffer abuse, including sexual molestation than in the general population. 19.) According to the California Little Hoover Commission Report in 2003, 30% to 70% of the children in California group homes do not belong there and should not have been removed from their homes.

It has been beyond me to turn my back on the suffering, crying, and sometimes beaten down. We are mistreating the most innocent. DYFS has become adult centered to the detriment of children. No longer is judgment based on what the child needs or who the child wants to be with or what is really best for the whole family; it is some adult or bureaucrat who makes the decisions, based often on just hearsay, without ever consulting a family member, or just what is convenient, profitable, or less troublesome for a director of DYFS.

I have witnessed such injustice and harm brought to my very own and other families that I am not sure if I even believe reform of the system is possible! The system cannot be trusted. It does not serve the people. It obliterates families and children simply because it has the power to do so. Children deserve better. Families deserve better. Speak up and judge fairly; defend the rights of the poor and the needy. Proverbs 31:8-9

What I would request in a settlement demand or an amended complaint: 1.) An independent audit of the DYFS to expose corruption and fraud. 2.) Activate immediate change. Every day that passes means more families and children are subject to being held hostage. 3.) End the financial incentives that separate families. 4.) Grant to parents their rights in writing. 5.) Mandate a search for family members to be given the opportunity to adopt their own relatives. 6.) Mandate a jury trial where every piece of evidence is presented before removing a child from his or her parents. 7.) Require a warrant or a positive emergency circumstance before removing children from their parents. (Judge Arthur G. Christean, Utah Bar Journal, January, 1997 reported that “except in emergency circumstances, including the need for immediate medical care, require warrants upon affidavits of probable cause before entry upon private property is permitted for the forcible removal of children from their parents.”) 8.) Uphold the laws when someone fabricates or presents false evidence. If a parent alleges fraud, hold a hearing with the right to discovery of all evidence.

Susan June 17, 2016 at 5:22 pm - Reply

Admin said:

Juda Myers of Choices4Life calls her a "Hero Mom." A 14 year old Alabama girl became pregnant from a rape, but she courageously chose life for the baby that was conceived. She refused to consider the option of abortion, and told her grandparents, who are her legal guardians, that if they would help her, she would raise and love this baby. Instead of celebrating her as a hero, Alabama child protective services – DHR – came into the hospital yesterday and seized her newborn baby, leaving a devastated young mother and her family in their wake. Juda Myers and I were there to witness the trampling of every Constitutional and moral right of this young mother, and we are shocked and devastated at what we saw. There is no legal or moral justification for what we saw happen at Shelby Baptist Medical Center in Alabaster, Alabama, on Wednesday, June 15, 2016. Choices4Life founder Juda Myers flew to Alabama from Texas on Monday in order to be supportive of this young mother who chose life for her baby conceived in rape. The tagline for the ministry is "Restoring honor and dignity to women and children of rape conception." Juda says: This 14 year old’s dignity was stolen. Cases like hers are exactly why Choices4Life exists. There was no court order, no warrant, and no sign of imminent (or any other) danger, yet hospital social worker Jamilia literally ripped 51 hour-old Braelon from his mother’s arms right after he finished breastfeeding.

What were the results of the 2 hearings today at the Shelby County Courthouse?

Toni June 17, 2016 at 4:37 pm - Reply

suzanne said:

Is there any updated information available yet?

Thats what I’m tryn to find out I know them personally and haven’t been able to contact family. I’m desperate to know where "BabyGirl",her baby&brother are?

Toni June 17, 2016 at 4:33 pm - Reply

Jeannie-Brown said:

Tonya-Gaskin said:

So, now court is postponed till next Friday? So does that mean she won’t see her baby at all for another 7 days? And if I know the court system, even longer??? Outrage!
This is crazy. My heart hurts for this family. I’m sure the court was laid over so CPS could try their hardest to dig up any little morsel of dirt on this family to justify their disgusting action.
I also believe they removed the young mother and her brother from the grandparents homes to find justification, too. They can’t take the chance of people asking why the 14 yr olds could stay but not the newborn. They were covering their butts from the get go. They knew they were wrong but will fight hell and high water to keep themselves from facing their wrongs.
I pray this family is reunited and the social worker loses her job. I also hope the family sues the county and I’m no a person big on suing anyone. I’m just disgusted with the entire "Welfare" system. They are only worried about their welfare and lining their pockets.

Going straight to point I haven’t read comments yet but am following story & also know this family personally. I’ve been unable to reach anyone yet&my heart aches for "BabyGirl",her baby,her brother&family. I’d love to know what the status of this is now, where’s the baby,where’s brayden & Brendan????Please tell me atleast that "BabyGirl"is w/ her brother in this awful time?She’s a baby herself who just had a baby&they take her baby then take her from her Nana.WTH is Nxt?Where are they Now!

Kayla June 17, 2016 at 4:22 pm - Reply

Admin said:

Juda Myers of Choices4Life calls her a "Hero Mom." A 14 year old Alabama girl became pregnant from a rape, but she courageously chose life for the baby that was conceived. She refused to consider the option of abortion, and told her grandparents, who are her legal guardians, that if they would help her, she would raise and love this baby. Instead of celebrating her as a hero, Alabama child protective services – DHR – came into the hospital yesterday and seized her newborn baby, leaving a devastated young mother and her family in their wake. Juda Myers and I were there to witness the trampling of every Constitutional and moral right of this young mother, and we are shocked and devastated at what we saw. There is no legal or moral justification for what we saw happen at Shelby Baptist Medical Center in Alabaster, Alabama, on Wednesday, June 15, 2016. Choices4Life founder Juda Myers flew to Alabama from Texas on Monday in order to be supportive of this young mother who chose life for her baby conceived in rape. The tagline for the ministry is "Restoring honor and dignity to women and children of rape conception." Juda says: This 14 year old’s dignity was stolen. Cases like hers are exactly why Choices4Life exists. There was no court order, no warrant, and no sign of imminent (or any other) danger, yet hospital social worker Jamilia literally ripped 51 hour-old Braelon from his mother’s arms right after he finished breastfeeding.

This happened to me as well. There was nothing I could do. I still don’t have my children. I hope this gets resolved for you. It hasn’t yet for me. DHR in Cullman al has ruined my life and my family. I have been paying my attorney to help me return custody there is absolutely no reason as to why I cannot have my children. None.

crystal June 17, 2016 at 4:21 pm - Reply

@Kathy-Forbes said:

Sara-Gerardi said:

UPDATE: People who have been posting this story on Facebook are being BANNED for 30 days! PLEASE, contact everyone you can and let’s get this baby back to his mother!
I for one know that’s not true. I’ve had 2 friends post it just recently and they are alive and well on FB. If you want to see this baby and mother reunited, please stop spreading such wild accusations. You’re not helping anyone.

I haven’t been banned but the first video i posted about this has mysteriously disappeared. I have re-posted the story and I will see what happens.

Jeannie Brown June 17, 2016 at 4:01 pm - Reply

Tonya-Gaskin said:

So, now court is postponed till next Friday? So does that mean she won’t see her baby at all for another 7 days? And if I know the court system, even longer??? Outrage!

This is crazy. My heart hurts for this family. I’m sure the court was laid over so CPS could try their hardest to dig up any little morsel of dirt on this family to justify their disgusting action.

I also believe they removed the young mother and her brother from the grandparents homes to find justification, too. They can’t take the chance of people asking why the 14 yr olds could stay but not the newborn. They were covering their butts from the get go. They knew they were wrong but will fight hell and high water to keep themselves from facing their wrongs.

I pray this family is reunited and the social worker loses her job. I also hope the family sues the county and I’m no a person big on suing anyone. I’m just disgusted with the entire "Welfare" system. They are only worried about their welfare and lining their pockets.

Tonya Gaskin June 17, 2016 at 3:24 pm - Reply

So, now court is postponed till next Friday? So does that mean she won’t see her baby at all for another 7 days? And if I know the court system, even longer??? Outrage!

Allison June 17, 2016 at 2:03 pm - Reply

Anxious to hear an update from the hearings and to see how the rally went. So many of us would be there if we could. My family is holding our breath watching from the other side of the country.

Amanda Z. June 17, 2016 at 1:53 pm - Reply

I thought that South Carolina department of Social Services was corrupt. This is worse. As for an update, I read that CPS came in and took the 14 year old mother and her twin brother from the home with their grandparents. They did so without a warrant or reason. The mother was reunited with her baby if only to breastfeed him and was not allowed to attend the hearing for her newborn baby or her brother’s hearing.

The twins were told they weren’t separated, but they were. CPS is messed up and corrupt, period. Something needs to be done about it.

matt1016 June 17, 2016 at 1:53 pm - Reply

Amanda-Z. said:

I thought that South Carolina department of Social Services was corrupt. This is worse. As for an update, I read that CPS came in and took the 14 year old mother and her twin brother from the home with their grandparents. They did so without a warrant or reason. The mother was reunited with her baby if only to breastfeed him and was not allowed to attend the hearing for her newborn baby or her brother’s hearing.
The twins were told they weren’t separated, but they were. CPS is messed up and corrupt, period. Something needs to be done about it.

The UPDATED information quoted above is in the main article – click on "Read Full Story" to read the full update…

Kacie June 17, 2016 at 1:51 pm - Reply

The stupid inconsiderate low life douche bags that took that poor little newborn baby away from his young mother shame on you

I hope you rot in hell for the rest of your life thats HER BABY NOT YOURS

how could u do such a thing ? She was minding her own business and trying to start a happy life after she got raped

Rape baby or not its still hers u have absolutely no right at all

GIVE THAT CHILD HER BABY BACK

I AM SO SO UPSET AT ALL THIS

suzanne June 17, 2016 at 1:33 pm - Reply

Is there any updated information available yet?

Suzanne June 17, 2016 at 1:12 pm - Reply

Someone at the Hospital had to call in DHS or CPS – I think the hospital needs to be investigated as well. Holding babies and mothers prisoner is crazy and also unconstitutional. We want updates and we want this on the news! I noticed it’s getting harder to find on google too – what’s up with that?! Praying all family members are reunited immediately!

Cari Dyer June 17, 2016 at 1:11 pm - Reply

I have called news outlets, Alabama senator, representatives, reporters, shared this story on social media, you name it!!

This story is a cautionary, very real, and creepy story! This poor family is being criminalized for doing the right thing! DHS, Shelby Medical Center, Alabaster police dept., And security are to blame for keeping family hostage and stealing their baby without warrant or any legal justification.

CPS has been exposed for thousands of cases of sex trafficking and for using children as commodities.

It’s unreal to me that any human being would just excuse their actions for "following protocal" Everyone involved in helping illegally detain family and kidnap that child should be prosecuted

Cara June 17, 2016 at 1:00 pm - Reply

Crystal said:

Vicki said:

Stephanie said:

Admin said:
Juda Myers of Choices4Life calls her a "Hero Mom." A 14 year old Alabama girl became pregnant from a rape, but she courageously chose life for the baby that was conceived. She refused to consider the option of abortion, and told her grandparents, who are her legal guardians, that if they would help her, she would raise and love this baby. Instead of celebrating her as a hero, Alabama child protective services – DHR – came into the hospital yesterday and seized her newborn baby, leaving a devastated young mother and her family in their wake. Juda Myers and I were there to witness the trampling of every Constitutional and moral right of this young mother, and we are shocked and devastated at what we saw. There is no legal or moral justification for what we saw happen at Shelby Baptist Medical Center in Alabaster, Alabama, on Wednesday, June 15, 2016. Choices4Life founder Juda Myers flew to Alabama from Texas on Monday in order to be supportive of this young mother who chose life for her baby conceived in rape. The tagline for the ministry is "Restoring honor and dignity to women and children of rape conception." Juda says: This 14 year old’s dignity was stolen. Cases like hers are exactly why Choices4Life exists. There was no court order, no warrant, and no sign of imminent (or any other) danger, yet hospital social worker Jamilia literally ripped 51 hour-old Braelon from his mother’s arms right after he finished breastfeeding.
I for one am disgusted with the state for takig her baby!! Give her back her child and butt out of people lives! You had no right destroying her like that. She mad a choice to have the baby and now you treat her like that was the wrong choice!
You broke her heart and you have no grounds to take her child all you care about is money!!
I’d be willing to bet they get some kind of money from taking white babies and adopting them out.
When things don’t make sense like this…follow the money.
I don’t know about Alabama but in Kentucky they actually do get a "bonus" when a child is adopted out of foster care. Which has lead to a lot of corrupt actions by DPP. They have even been known to take the cute, younger, more likely to be adopted children from a home and leave the older children in the same home. I think child protective services all over the country needs reformed and any monetary incentives taken away.

Something very wrong is going on here and I’m willing to bet it’s one of the following: they are receiving money, the accused rapist is from an influential and affluent family, or he is a potential star athlete that just can’t have his reputation tarnished! This story is infuriating and heartbreaking! I’m anxious to find out what happens in court today.

Sandra Campbell June 17, 2016 at 12:57 pm - Reply

I know age 14 is really hard to raise a baby. But God instilled something in females so that they can do this. Its her baby and if she believes she can do this she will! And she will have her grandparents to help her by all means please give her her baby!

John June 17, 2016 at 12:56 pm - Reply

The thing to do when CPS or the equivalent gets overly interested in your family is to switch states immediately. I know some attorneys that fight family law, and that is their advice early on. In Texas, where I am, they say "get out of the state before they do anything formal." Once you’re in "the system" they control every moment of you, your family’s and your child’s life. Some love to mess with people and put the fear of the CPS Gods in them.

Don’t hint you have any connections out of state. Just move, get your belongings later – without your child present.

steve June 17, 2016 at 11:32 am - Reply

Admin said:

Juda Myers of Choices4Life calls her a "Hero Mom." A 14 year old Alabama girl became pregnant from a rape, but she courageously chose life for the baby that was conceived. She refused to consider the option of abortion, and told her grandparents, who are her legal guardians, that if they would help her, she would raise and love this baby. Instead of celebrating her as a hero, Alabama child protective services – DHR – came into the hospital yesterday and seized her newborn baby, leaving a devastated young mother and her family in their wake. Juda Myers and I were there to witness the trampling of every Constitutional and moral right of this young mother, and we are shocked and devastated at what we saw. There is no legal or moral justification for what we saw happen at Shelby Baptist Medical Center in Alabaster, Alabama, on Wednesday, June 15, 2016. Choices4Life founder Juda Myers flew to Alabama from Texas on Monday in order to be supportive of this young mother who chose life for her baby conceived in rape. The tagline for the ministry is "Restoring honor and dignity to women and children of rape conception." Juda says: This 14 year old’s dignity was stolen. Cases like hers are exactly why Choices4Life exists. There was no court order, no warrant, and no sign of imminent (or any other) danger, yet hospital social worker Jamilia literally ripped 51 hour-old Braelon from his mother’s arms right after he finished breastfeeding.

I’m wondering if the Alabama CPS and DHR are in financial cahoots with someone who wants a new born child.

Dana Lawhon June 17, 2016 at 11:32 am - Reply

In the article it said why will the media not report these stories well I will tell you why. It is because reporters know after watching what has happened to other reporters that if they report these stories they will lose their jobs just as others have done in the past. DHS/CPS in every state is protected as they bring in a lot of Federal money into the states by stealing your children. Their attitude is it’s all about the money and if a few children die along the way no big deal as long as we get our money. Now this case just became a very big cash cow for DHR in Alabama. DHR will get a big check for the pick up of the mother and her brother and the baby too plus the bonus money that will be tacked on for the special criteria that these children now fall under. Just to give you an example the brother $8,000 for pick up plus $4,000 because he didn’t live with his parents at the time. Plus $4,000 because he will now be slotted as special needs.Plus $4,000 more because he will now suddenly require medication to deal with all this. So the total check for him just for pickup will be $20,000 dollars. This does not include foster care etc. that is a separate deal all together. Now you have to add on the girl and then her child and the $4,000 bonus money per criteria for them also.. So what DHR in Alabama is looking at is receiving a check for $100,000 and all they have to do is steal 3 children. Don’t be surprised if you find out that the judge financial interest in an adoption agency, and maybe the very one they will be using to adopt this child out of. Also once that happens more people get federal money including the adoption agency.

Grammy8 June 17, 2016 at 11:32 am - Reply

I’m confused. Why did they remove her and her twin brother? Do the grandparents have legal guardianship? Did her mother or father request this? I’m praying there is more to the story BUT it still doesn’t explain the way it was handled and why no explanations were given. Praying for God’s will to be done. He knows what is the right thing.

matt1016 June 17, 2016 at 11:32 am - Reply

Grammy8 said:

I’m confused. Why did they remove her and her twin brother? Do the grandparents have legal guardianship? Did her mother or father request this? I’m praying there is more to the story BUT it still doesn’t explain the way it was handled and why no explanations were given. Praying for God’s will to be done. He knows what is the right thing.

Please read yesterday’s UPDATE (6/16/16). The court hearings are taking place today, and there will probably be another update after that. Stay tuned….

Dana Lawhon June 17, 2016 at 10:59 am - Reply

Jerry-Stark said:

I hope they are smart enough to bring a very good attorney with them to that hearing. I’m sure DHS is saying that a 14 y/o girl is not equipped to raise a child. And I would agree with them for about 99.9% of all 14 y/o girls. But this girl has help. What should have happened is that the grand parents should have already filed for custody of the baby before it was born. There would have been no concern then. But who thinks of that under the circumstances? Then they could have assisted their grand daughter and baby as they saw fit. This is still a violation of the rights of a mother and they seriously need a competent attorney the entire way through this.

Not smart enough at 14 to raise a child OMG stop the presses what ever you do don’t tell Loretta Lynn who was married and had her first child at 13

Dana Lawhon June 17, 2016 at 10:59 am - Reply

So
 let me guess now DHS is going to give the baby to the rapist so he can 
now rape his own offspring wouldn’t surprise me just saying. Sorry if I sound cynical it’s just after 30 years of this shit it has gone past getting old. However unfortunately tomorrow it will be another mother who loses a child through no fault of their own. Or it will be another innocent dead who will die because of DHS, and still nobody will do anything it just keeps going on.

Brandy Bullock June 17, 2016 at 10:49 am - Reply

This is wrong on so many levels. DHR had no right taking this child. They couldn’t even give this family a reason. Is it because she is 14?? Well, have you looked at the teen pregnancy rate in this state?? How many of those teens have you kidnapped their children also?? What about the adults that don’t take care of their children and DHR won’t even investigate?? I am praying that that the someone steps in and rights this wrong to this family.

janet June 17, 2016 at 10:27 am - Reply

I am outraged by this, and the story sounds eerily familiar to something that happened with my family. BTW, where is the guardian ad litem for this 14-yr-old child? This is the most egregious thing I have heard in a long, long time. I will be there at 1:00 on Friday, but I am almost afraid it will backfire. These people, DHR, do NOT like being challenged, and they are the most vindictive people you will ever meet.

Kevin June 17, 2016 at 10:27 am - Reply

Georgia- said:

Sam said:

This shit has got to stop. We are not in the dark ages .. or are we? :(
But this is Alabama, the most backwards state there is.

This kind of thing can happen in any state. Here’s a case in Nevada, supposedly a state having among the most freedoms: http://www.reviewjournal.com/news/las-vegas/family-loses-foster-care-license-after-gun-incident

Crystal June 17, 2016 at 10:27 am - Reply

Vicki said:

Stephanie said:

Admin said:
Juda Myers of Choices4Life calls her a "Hero Mom." A 14 year old Alabama girl became pregnant from a rape, but she courageously chose life for the baby that was conceived. She refused to consider the option of abortion, and told her grandparents, who are her legal guardians, that if they would help her, she would raise and love this baby. Instead of celebrating her as a hero, Alabama child protective services – DHR – came into the hospital yesterday and seized her newborn baby, leaving a devastated young mother and her family in their wake. Juda Myers and I were there to witness the trampling of every Constitutional and moral right of this young mother, and we are shocked and devastated at what we saw. There is no legal or moral justification for what we saw happen at Shelby Baptist Medical Center in Alabaster, Alabama, on Wednesday, June 15, 2016. Choices4Life founder Juda Myers flew to Alabama from Texas on Monday in order to be supportive of this young mother who chose life for her baby conceived in rape. The tagline for the ministry is "Restoring honor and dignity to women and children of rape conception." Juda says: This 14 year old’s dignity was stolen. Cases like hers are exactly why Choices4Life exists. There was no court order, no warrant, and no sign of imminent (or any other) danger, yet hospital social worker Jamilia literally ripped 51 hour-old Braelon from his mother’s arms right after he finished breastfeeding.
I for one am disgusted with the state for takig her baby!! Give her back her child and butt out of people lives! You had no right destroying her like that. She mad a choice to have the baby and now you treat her like that was the wrong choice!
You broke her heart and you have no grounds to take her child all you care about is money!!
I’d be willing to bet they get some kind of money from taking white babies and adopting them out.
When things don’t make sense like this…follow the money.

I don’t know about Alabama but in Kentucky they actually do get a "bonus" when a child is adopted out of foster care. Which has lead to a lot of corrupt actions by DPP. They have even been known to take the cute, younger, more likely to be adopted children from a home and leave the older children in the same home. I think child protective services all over the country needs reformed and any monetary incentives taken away.

joe June 17, 2016 at 9:27 am - Reply

I would like to see the death penalty imposed on any government official involved in the kidnap of children. i.e. any child taken that was not adjudicated by a jury of 12 peers.

Stephanie June 17, 2016 at 9:27 am - Reply

I’ve contacted all available persons regarding this case. I’m in complete disbelief that this is happening to her, as a rape victim, who’s done absolutely nothing wrong. I hope and pray that all involved parties are reunited and returned home where they belong. I’ve had many unreasonable "run-ins" with my local DHR due to a crazy relative who repeatedly sent them my way through multiple false allegations. Even had a time, about 6 years ago, when the said relative accused me of drug use, and when I immediately was given a spontaneous hair follicle drug test and passed (which goes back a minimum of 3 months and detects ALL types of drugs) they still removed my children, placed them with the relative, and allowed her to move to California with them for over 3 months before I was finally able to defend myself and my family in court, before a judge, who made it all right again. I’m a resident of Alabama also, and I fear that when residing in small towns in Alabama, and possibly other states, the judicial system and Child Protective Services, seems to be much more corrupt than those of larger, more populated towns.

SHIRLEY KREIDER June 17, 2016 at 9:10 am - Reply

this is so wrong she carried this baby for nine months it is hers i do not care if she is only 14 god gave her that baby not the welfare i do not understand how the hospital could hold them there against her will i do not know but i think maybe there might be someone in the welfare dept who want a baby what they going to do now buy off the judge stop treating this girl like this no wonder the welfare system is they way it is always sticking their nose into something they do not need to be the girl has family that is willing to help her so they need to leave her alone i will pray for this girl and her baby every day you can see the love for that baby in her eyes dear hevenly father please wrap this girl and her baby in your arms and propect her lord please be with the judge when they make their decison lord you know what this girl has gone through please help her lord to get her baby back and for the welfare to leave her alone father we all know the system need to look into as you and i know this is wrong so lord i put this into your hands to slove in your sweet name i pray amen amen i ask one question why was the welfare not there when she was raped and where is the person who raped her maybe still walking the streets to do it to another girl mayb all welfare records should be made public cause i bet there is people on welfare that should not be getting this help and do they test the people on welfare fore drugs bet not but it is ok for this to happen but not this girl to keep her baby come on what is this world comming to someone need to do their job the right way maybe lets wipe out welfare clean it up and start it over with all new people in there then start with the goverment and clean them up too lets take all the young people on welfare and make them get jobs not just set around doing nothing i will rant over this for the time it takes to get this baby back to it mother lord help them get this baby back and quick father amen

Lisa Vinson June 17, 2016 at 9:09 am - Reply

LeSheri said:

I went to Bently’s page and tried to leave a message but of course it wouldn’t send. There are so many children that are abused that need to be taken from parents/foster parents that are left to be abused by DHR yet they jump in on this situation where they were not needed. This is ridiculous and something needs to be done about this . The State of Alabama is corrupt and we as Alabamians need to stand up and do something.

Bentley couldn’t care less. He will just send a canned message back to contact an attorney.

Alabama DHR and Shelby County in particular do not care about laws. They do what they want with no regard to the child or their parents. I know of a particular situation where they removed a child from the mother’s custody and rightly so because she was drinking herself into a stupor and has mental health issues and was not taking care of the child. They never made any attempt to contact the child’s father to see if he was capable of taking his daughter before sending her out of state to live with the mother’s half sister. The father had in fact been searching for the mother and child because the mother kept house hopping, moving in with different people all over Shelby County so he was unable to have his visitation with his child. All this because the mother was unhappy that he had gotten married. He was powerless to do anything about any of what transpired.

Vicki June 17, 2016 at 7:16 am - Reply

Stephanie said:

Admin said:
Juda Myers of Choices4Life calls her a "Hero Mom." A 14 year old Alabama girl became pregnant from a rape, but she courageously chose life for the baby that was conceived. She refused to consider the option of abortion, and told her grandparents, who are her legal guardians, that if they would help her, she would raise and love this baby. Instead of celebrating her as a hero, Alabama child protective services – DHR – came into the hospital yesterday and seized her newborn baby, leaving a devastated young mother and her family in their wake. Juda Myers and I were there to witness the trampling of every Constitutional and moral right of this young mother, and we are shocked and devastated at what we saw. There is no legal or moral justification for what we saw happen at Shelby Baptist Medical Center in Alabaster, Alabama, on Wednesday, June 15, 2016. Choices4Life founder Juda Myers flew to Alabama from Texas on Monday in order to be supportive of this young mother who chose life for her baby conceived in rape. The tagline for the ministry is "Restoring honor and dignity to women and children of rape conception." Juda says: This 14 year old’s dignity was stolen. Cases like hers are exactly why Choices4Life exists. There was no court order, no warrant, and no sign of imminent (or any other) danger, yet hospital social worker Jamilia literally ripped 51 hour-old Braelon from his mother’s arms right after he finished breastfeeding.
I for one am disgusted with the state for takig her baby!! Give her back her child and butt out of people lives! You had no right destroying her like that. She mad a choice to have the baby and now you treat her like that was the wrong choice!
You broke her heart and you have no grounds to take her child all you care about is money!!

I’d be willing to bet they get some kind of money from taking white babies and adopting them out.

When things don’t make sense like this…follow the money.

LeSheri June 17, 2016 at 6:57 am - Reply

I went to Bently’s page and tried to leave a message but of course it wouldn’t send. There are so many children that are abused that need to be taken from parents/foster parents that are left to be abused by DHR yet they jump in on this situation where they were not needed. This is ridiculous and something needs to be done about this . The State of Alabama is corrupt and we as Alabamians need to stand up and do something.

Nick June 17, 2016 at 6:10 am - Reply

Sonya said:

anyone know if she got her baby back??? Today is the 17th! Praying for a follow up!

As of 6pm on the 16th she and her twin brother were removed from their grandparents home by DHR. They were taken to separate locations, but DHR did reunite her with her baby. There are two hearings tomorrow. One at 9am for her and her brother then another at 1pm about her baby.

pam June 17, 2016 at 6:09 am - Reply

I was gang raped at 14 in 1975, when I gave birth to my son the delivery doctor got into my face and vehemently said, you are not keeping that child. Well before I gave birth I had been in prayer for weeks asking God what I should do, the answer was clear that I should give him up for adoption and give him a better chance in life, I hope and pray with all my heart that he did. This is wonderful that this woman came to be an advocate for this young girl, I really was made to feel shame when this doctor spoke those words to me and the way he spoke them to me. A lot for a 14 year old girl to go thru.

Georgia June 17, 2016 at 6:09 am - Reply

Sam said:

This shit has got to stop. We are not in the dark ages .. or are we? :(

But this is Alabama, the most backwards state there is.

Greta June 17, 2016 at 6:08 am - Reply

I pray for this young mother and her precious little baby. It is a known fact that the evil one attacks and destroys families … When families are destroyed he wins. The DHR and CPS are the evil instruments he is using to accomplish this. Oh great nation! your rich fabric is torn into pieces. Shame on you DHR for not standing for justice … Your hearts are filled with evil. This young mother has done everything right and with love … If you can not recognize it, you need to quit your job. You have destroyed the peace and love in this family …. How can you be contributing to anything good to the wellbeing of your state? Such a shame! Our God is all powerful and I will join everyone else in praying that this baby and other babies be returned from the clutches of evil. I also pray for wisdom to all those supporting and fighting this case for this precious little baby to be returned to her mother.

James Busler June 17, 2016 at 6:08 am - Reply

This is a disgrace! I do not understand how it could even begin to be legal. As for the Officer… he is going to Taz the boy if he doesn’t get in the car? What a credit to the uniform that guy is!

Dylan June 17, 2016 at 6:08 am - Reply

Jackie said:

Jamie said:

Jackie said:

This happened to my sister in Ohio. She gave birth to her second child and the social worker said because of her mental health, she was unable to care for her newborn son, despite having raised her first son without any issues from her health and being monitored by her regular mental health care provider. They took him from her before she left the hospital. Then the social worker kept sending documents to her husband’s parents home to make it appear that they were divorced as grounds for her to not get him back. They also wouldn’t allow me to get custody of him because my home was "unfit" (I had custody of my two children from my first marriage, my home was fit enough for them, but not for me to get custody of my nephew, who, with a court order, would have received military benefits of housing, medical, etc). He was in the system so long that his foster parents have adopted him.
So, sad. Is your sister still fighting for her child?
The adoption is finalized, she can’t fight it anymore. But, she knows the foster family and she is allowed to visit her son, he knows who she is. The foster mother admitted that the social worker made her out to be a monster when in fact the social worker was denying my sister access to any information until a judge forced her to give my sister the information, but that didn’t stop the social worker from manipulating everything. At this point, it’s more harmful to remove my nephew from the adoptive home than keep him where he is.

I’m so proud you made the right choice to honor your baby’s choice to live. You are such a warrior. I totally disagree with you about your nephew, idk who’s told you that or where you came up with that in your mind but it’s not more harmful. That’s a lie that the courts tell people. The child belongs with their biological parents if they are healthy and fit to raise them, if that is the case, never give up on that child and get back what God gave to you and what has been stolen.

Radu June 17, 2016 at 6:07 am - Reply

Theat serve a lesson ,never trust hospithals ,evere ! Look what happen in EU , with Bodnariu familly scandal and other Romanian famillys in Norway and UK ,and nit only them ,the hole west it rothen to the core ,in child protection ,in some parts like Canada CPS give singh of inplosion ,becose they are overload with to many stolen children and the system began to collapse ! For all future ,and pregnant mothers do your homework plan every think ,hospithals are not to be trust it ,beter a peacefull birth at home aid and asist by familly ,and if are medical reason ,a small clinic some were else !!!! It all about strategy…

kristiG June 17, 2016 at 6:07 am - Reply

White babies are easy to place. The way I understand it is that they get funds when they place white babies.

WSBTV in Atlanta will often investigate DFCS issues here in Georgia – once the director of DFCS said on the phone in an interview they played "We don’t HAVE to do what the judge says." Many people were floored when they heard the director of CPS say these things! People are always outraged when they come face to face with how few rights you have, and how much power they have, when it comes to child services. Most people want to blame the families, and never consider the government could be doing anything wrong and ignore it until it happens in their families.

From a medical standpoint, a nursing mom and baby really should be kept together if at all possible. Besides just lactation issues – there’s a very real bonding period too in the first weeks of a baby’s life, for mom and baby to bond, and if that bonding process doesn’t work, the relationship will never be what it should be.

It isn’t the best situation when 14 year olds have babies, but for most of recorded history, that’s when births started happening – it is STILL the case in many countries. The human race is still here. A lot of mothering IS instinct and love. 14 year olds have that too.

I wish the best for her and her family.

Kathy Forbes June 17, 2016 at 6:07 am - Reply

Sara-Gerardi said:

UPDATE: People who have been posting this story on Facebook are being BANNED for 30 days! PLEASE, contact everyone you can and let’s get this baby back to his mother!

I for one know that’s not true. I’ve had 2 friends post it just recently and they are alive and well on FB. If you want to see this baby and mother reunited, please stop spreading such wild accusations. You’re not helping anyone.

Bryan June 17, 2016 at 1:18 am - Reply

I am a writer inside the cop block network. I am also a admin in the Occupy Movement network. I going to do everything I can and talk to the people I have contacts with and get this story on as many pages as I can. My goal is to have this story to as many eyes as I can get on this, this weekend.

Brian June 17, 2016 at 1:18 am - Reply

Bryan- said:

I am a writer inside the cop block network. I am also a admin in the Occupy Movement network. I going to do everything I can and talk to the people I have contacts with and get this story on as many pages as I can. My goal is to have this story to as many eyes as I can get on this, this weekend.

Thanks Bryan!

Holly June 17, 2016 at 12:55 am - Reply

This is ridiculous. I had a similar situation with dhr in Alabama. I sought help during my pregnancy for peripartum anxiety and depression and the hospital called dhr on me. After I delivered my son, they had dhr come in and talk to me alone and told my husband he couldn’t be in there and I feared they were going to take my baby. No reason at all. This system is ridiculous. I pray for this young mother that she get her baby back. I hope this doesn’t scare her to death in any health matter that she has for her child in the future

SleepyAmerican June 17, 2016 at 12:54 am - Reply

Admin said:

Juda Myers of Choices4Life calls her a "Hero Mom." A 14 year old Alabama girl became pregnant from a rape, but she courageously chose life for the baby that was conceived. She refused to consider the option of abortion, and told her grandparents, who are her legal guardians, that if they would help her, she would raise and love this baby. Instead of celebrating her as a hero, Alabama child protective services – DHR – came into the hospital yesterday and seized her newborn baby, leaving a devastated young mother and her family in their wake. Juda Myers and I were there to witness the trampling of every Constitutional and moral right of this young mother, and we are shocked and devastated at what we saw. There is no legal or moral justification for what we saw happen at Shelby Baptist Medical Center in Alabaster, Alabama, on Wednesday, June 15, 2016. Choices4Life founder Juda Myers flew to Alabama from Texas on Monday in order to be supportive of this young mother who chose life for her baby conceived in rape. The tagline for the ministry is "Restoring honor and dignity to women and children of rape conception." Juda says: This 14 year old’s dignity was stolen. Cases like hers are exactly why Choices4Life exists. There was no court order, no warrant, and no sign of imminent (or any other) danger, yet hospital social worker Jamilia literally ripped 51 hour-old Braelon from his mother’s arms right after he finished breastfeeding.

when I had Savannah this witch Social Worker repeatedly harassed me and my family trying to take baby from me because I’m disabled. This makes me livid!

Stephanie June 17, 2016 at 12:24 am - Reply

Admin said:

Juda Myers of Choices4Life calls her a "Hero Mom." A 14 year old Alabama girl became pregnant from a rape, but she courageously chose life for the baby that was conceived. She refused to consider the option of abortion, and told her grandparents, who are her legal guardians, that if they would help her, she would raise and love this baby. Instead of celebrating her as a hero, Alabama child protective services – DHR – came into the hospital yesterday and seized her newborn baby, leaving a devastated young mother and her family in their wake. Juda Myers and I were there to witness the trampling of every Constitutional and moral right of this young mother, and we are shocked and devastated at what we saw. There is no legal or moral justification for what we saw happen at Shelby Baptist Medical Center in Alabaster, Alabama, on Wednesday, June 15, 2016. Choices4Life founder Juda Myers flew to Alabama from Texas on Monday in order to be supportive of this young mother who chose life for her baby conceived in rape. The tagline for the ministry is "Restoring honor and dignity to women and children of rape conception." Juda says: This 14 year old’s dignity was stolen. Cases like hers are exactly why Choices4Life exists. There was no court order, no warrant, and no sign of imminent (or any other) danger, yet hospital social worker Jamilia literally ripped 51 hour-old Braelon from his mother’s arms right after he finished breastfeeding.

I for one am disgusted with the state for takig her baby!! Give her back her child and butt out of people lives! You had no right destroying her like that. She mad a choice to have the baby and now you treat her like that was the wrong choice!

You broke her heart and you have no grounds to take her child all you care about is money!!

Denise June 17, 2016 at 12:24 am - Reply

I am about to get on my knees and start praying. I will be praying during the hearing later today. I just can not imagine what this poor young lady is going through. She was already raped, and now she is being treated like she did something wrong by them taking her baby. I am in total shock. This world is getting worse by the day.

Bobby June 17, 2016 at 12:24 am - Reply

She decided to keep the baby and raise it. That takes courage and guts. Far more then that evil ruthless beast who walked in and took her child . Some young parents do a far more better job then some adults you see out there these days. She deserves her baby and I pray and hope she gets him back. I hope she hires a lawyer that will sue the hell out of them. I will pray she gets her baby back soon.